Channel Buzz

Happiest Minds Technologies Wins 2021 IBM Geography Excellence Award

Happiest Minds Technologies is proud to be honored as 2021 IBM Geography Excellence Award winner for APAC Best in Class - Build on IBM Cloud Partner. The award recognizes Business Partners in each geography who strive for excellence and have demonstrated their ability to exceed expectations through business growth and innovation while enabling client success using IBM technology, like hybrid cloud and AI. Happiest Minds’ Digital Content Monetization (DCM) solution is a software as a service (SaaS) platform that helps organizations to digitalize their traditional content and deliver digital products and services to their customers, partners, and users in new, engaging ways that drive digital business revenue. The platform offers a consumption-based commercial model that enables clients to quickly onboard and begin growing their digital business.

Rajiv Shah, President & CEO, Digital Business Services, Happiest Minds Technologies said, “In the current wake of the pandemic, digital has become the focus of business environments. With our ‘Born Digital . Born Agile’ positioning, our focus is to build solutions and services that directly impact the business goals of our customers with digital being the key lever. Our strategic partnership with IBM enables us to create solutions and services that are integrally tied to business goals. Our DCM solution built on Red Hat OpenShift helps modernize the business environment while delivering real-time outcomes. We are very excited to receive this award and look forward to having many more milestones like this.”

iValue and Riverbed Come Together to Deliver Best-in-Class Network Solutions

iValue InfoSolutions announced their teaming up with Riverbed a company that is known for helping the world’s largest organizations maximize the performance of their networks and applications so they can reach the full potential of their IT investments. Riverbed which was established in 2002 has come a long way in aiding organizations across the world with its software solutions to visualize, optimize, accelerate and remediate the performance of any network for any application with a holistic approach.

“Riverbed has more than 30,000 customers including 99% of the Fortune 100. iValue’s niche go-to-market strategy has always attracted the right set of solution providers and aimed at helping them reach the vast Indian market. With iValue and Riverbed’s collaboration, the Indian tech market will be able to access the high-end solutions in SD-WAN, WAN Optimization and Packet Capture under Network Performance Management,” said Subodh Anchan, Vice President – Vendor Alliance, iValue InfoSolutions. iValue’s readymade framework precisely targets the right set of enterprise customers through analytics based on the customer life cycle adoption framework. Their focused partner network pan-India has helped to target specific partners of relevance based on their top customers and top brands. Between the rise in connected devices and cloud adoption, threat intelligence is continuously evolving. The key to enhancing operational agility is to unify data across intel feeds. Empowered by Analytics for Business Development, iValue has been delivering 4+ times market growth for its OEMs consistently over the last 14 years.

Citrix Presents 2021 Partner Innovation Awards

As we slowly emerge from the most uncertain times the world has ever seen, one thing is clear: people are not going back to working the way they did. The future of work lies in flexible models that empower employees to work when, where and how they need to perform at their best. And today, Citrix Systems recognized a group of innovative organizations who are leveraging digital workspace solutions to deliver it as part of its 2021 Innovation Awards for Partners program.

“The modern workforce demands a modern environment in which they have simple, secure and reliable access to the tools and information they need to get work done, wherever it needs to get done,” said Mark Palomba, Chief Operating Officer, Sales and Service, Citrix. “Our global ecosystem of partners understands this and we are pleased to recognize their efforts to deliver solutions that enable companies to create the space their employees need to succeed.”

Designed to showcase partners who use Citrix technology to break new ground, solve unprecedented problems and uplift their communities, the Citrix Innovation Awards for Partners program generated scores of nominations from around the globe. Three finalists were selected based on their innovative thinking and results achieved.

Commvault Partners with SoftwareONE as First Global Design Partner for Metallic MSP Offerings

Commvault has announced the launch of a new partnership with SoftwareONE, a leading provider of end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions. SoftwareONE is Metallic’s first Managed Service Provider (MSP) global design partner for delivering Metallic-based SaaS data protection solutions in the form of BackupSimple powered by Metallic. BackupSimple is SoftwareONE’s cloud-based managed service offering to deliver critical data backup and recovery capabilities for companies of all sizes. Built on Metallic solutions and delivered by

SoftwareONE, BackupSimple protects and manages data from SaaS applications to endpoints to hybrid cloud workloads.

“We’re excited to partner with SoftwareONE to offer their customers industry-leading data protection, while simplifying partner adoption via the rapid time to value, lower costs, and ease of management that comes with SaaS,” said Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO, Commvault. “Coupling SoftwareONE’s world-class managed services and customer focus with the flexibility and scalability of Metallic’s breadth of offerings will surely accelerate the creation of streamlined customer onboarding, experience, management, and operational processes as we build the industry's leading managed service program."

“At SoftwareONE, we enable digital transformation of our customers’ businesses through innovative cloud and technology solutions.” said Dieter Schlosser, CEO of SoftwareONE . “We’re honored to be Metallic’s first MSP design partner, enhancing our managed services portfolio to help protect, manage and optimize our customers’ infrastructure and critical data in the cloud. Our managed services provide the deep technical expertise and 24x7x365 operational capabilities that our customers need for their business operations. With this approach, our digital, commercial technology transformation teams are able to partner with our customers to drive their agenda for their users as part of a workplace modernization or enable scalable modern application delivery through the cloud for users or partners, free from the day-to-day operational burden.”

USHERING IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION,

INDUSTRY LEADERS BUILDING RESILIENCE TO THRIVE IN THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD

In this post-pandemic world digital transformation has become more important. The rise of the internet and the current work culture has literally changed everything — from relationships to run businesses. In this unprecedented time organizations need top-tier solutions to run their digital operations so they can keep up with this rapidly changing world. Though digital transformation varies widely based on organization's specific challenges and demands, there are a few constants and common themes among existing case studies and published frameworks that all business and technology leaders should consider as they embark on digital transformation.

2020 has been a year like no other in recent history, and the manufacturing industry has felt the impact. Along with declines in production, forced shutdowns in the early days of the pandemic caused a significant dip in manufacturing employment levels. In 2021, it will focus on rebuilding lost revenue streams. For all manufacturers, it should include a commitment to increasing agility in operations. By continuing to invest in digital initiatives across their production process and supply network, manufacturers can respond to the disruptions caused by the pandemic and build resilience that can enable them to thrive.

To know more about this and how the leading solution partners are disrupting the market with the newer technologies, let’s go through the following feeds by the industry leaders.

HYBRID WORKFORCE MAKING ORGANIZATIONS TO FACE DIFFICULTIES IN DEVICE SETUP

AS A LEADING PLAYER

It's been a wonderful 34 years journey, we have been constantly working as a team to raise our bars and quality of solutions, each passing year. The IT Services and Solution industry has turned to be competitive like never before, and to survive and excel in such a market all that you need to deliver is an unforgettable experience; not just in terms of work but also the personal associations that we build via work. The consistent innovation in our services and solutions along with delivering a great customer experience; today makes the Next-Gen IT Partner.

EXPANDING SERVICE OFFERINGS

Over the years, we have successfully established a presence across all the major cities of India. Having hold of a good and diverse supply chain has helped us reach new markets in a very short span of time. Covid motivated a lot of people to go out of their way and start something of their own. The startup trend in India got our focus towards the southern region of India too. We now strive and deliver startup-first solutions to all major locations in India.

AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS TO PENETRATE

RANJAN CHOPRA MD Team Computers

We at Team Computers, are helping organizations accelerate their digital transformation through our Work From Home solutions starting from laptops, tablets, and desktops to complete Cloud-enabled storage solutions. Our current focus being Zero-touch deployment and 24x7 Remote Infrastructure support to the workforce.

STRATEGIC PLANS IN 2021

Our only strategic plan is to provide Organizations with the latest technology and to assure them sustainability. One of the most important aspects of this journey is to secure endpoint devices from phishing, malware, data breaches, and similar cyberattacks, our cybersecurity products helping organizations from such breaches. Similarly, managing Hybrid workforce devices through the physical presence of engineers or developers is a difficult task, so we are planning to opt for more Mobile Device Management solutions and Zero-touch deployments to seek quick issue resolutions.

BEST SUITED OEM’S PARTNER PROGRAMMES

We are rigorously investing in resources and research to level up the analytics and automation in India. Due to the Hybrid workforce, organizations are facing difficulties in device setup, Team Computers offers a wide variety of mobile devices with the features of Zero-touch deployment and remote support. Apple, Samsung, DELL, Lenovo are a few OEMs that help in the end-to-end device setup process. The support that we are receiving from all our OEMs is immense, we hope and work towards making these partnerships even more successful in the coming years.